When you short sell a stock, you are borrowing the stock from a lender, and the lender always has a right to say that they need their shares back, which might result in a forced buy-in by your broker. ...

I just wanted to know because I've had the notion that generally, a stock's price will rise over a long time. Yet, sometimes they don't. I'd like to know how likely it is historically that a randomly ...

I wanted to understand how equity dilution above or below book value can be good or bad for existing shareholders. Any example would be really great.
I am specially referring to banks and NBFCs kind ...

I have read that MOC (Market on Close) orders "Won't be executed until shortly before the current market session closes". This seems rather vague.
I know that during a session there is an order book ...

I was sorting through some market data today and was sorting between the three largest ECN/Exchange market centers that I have access to. The top three are:
Nasdaq.
Nasdaq Trade Reporting Facility.
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I'm a recent graduate and I would really like to start learning about investing and want some experience in the stock market without actually risking any money.
As an avid fan of fantasy football I ...

In a liquid asset like SPY, is there any market maker making markets? It seems that with such tight spreads , there is no incentive for the market maker to operate in this underlying. But then again, ...

I am looking for game theory agent-based software to run simulations of the stock market.
Ideally it would be a software where i could manipulate the variables and possible the underlying assumtions ...

Recently I have had trouble finding the shares to short for positions I want to take at the start of open hours. Is it easier for a broker to find the shares in premarket when the stock is likely to ...

Because exchanged markets like NASDAQ or NYSE are normal public businesses can they go into bankruptcy ? Supposedly they went into mysterious bankruptcy then what will happen to the listed companies ...

Is stock price determined only by the last trade that takes place?
For example, if a stock I own is trading at $3.42, and I place a Sell Limit order for $0.00, will the stock price temporarily dip to ...

I'm just wondering if I am understanding Stock options correctly.
Basically if I am watching stock XYZ. It's currently at $10 per share which I believe is low and should raise to 20 within 1 month.
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Is there any order type that will allow me to set both an upper and lower bound at once. For example, let's say I buy stock in company ABC for $2. I believe it will rise to $3 and I want to sell at ...

I am looking to buy stocks but I would like to do so without a broker. From what I can tell, the exchanges are good ole boys clubs that require you know (or pay) someone in order to participate. Am I ...

From what I understand from this MM vs specialist discussion ,
the job of the specialist is to bring buyers and sellers together as opposed to a market maker who buys from the seller and sells to the ...

I'm trying to understand what is considered "material" information held by an executive of a company. There is company information that an executive (say insider) will know that a public investor will ...

Suppose XYZ is trading at 25$. If I submit a limit buy order for XYZ stock at 20$, and let us say my order goes to the top of the order book.
5 min later, I 'modify' the order and make it 22$. Will ...

The way I see it, the stock exchange is a market where shares of a company are traded. These trades are triggered by individual valuations by participants of what an investment in a company would be ...